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Commins awarded humanitarian honour
- 3 Hours ago
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Sharon Commins and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki have been awarded this year's Hugh O'Flaherty Humanitarian Award. The two aid workers were captured by an armed gang in Darfur in July and spent over
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Ed Roberts Campus leads way for human rights
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Dmitri Belser is a busy man these days. As president of the Ed Roberts Campus, a headquarters for disability rights groups under construction in Berkeley, Belser spends his days on change orders, design
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Immigrant arrested over Rwandan genocide
- 4 Hours ago
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Police in Canada have arrested an immigrant in connection with the genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990s. The man is the second Rwandan to be charged under Canada's new Crimes Against Humanity Act. Jacques
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Karadzic war crimes trial postponed
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BOSNIAN Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic won a small victory in a battle of wills with the UN. BOSNIAN Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic won a small victory in a battle of wills with UN court judges
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US House backs China quake activists
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WASHINGTON DC, United States-The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths
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UN steps up assistance to displaced Pakistanis
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The United Nations refugee agency said today it is stepping up aid to people uprooted by military operations in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan, while highlighting the ongoing needs of around
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AFRICOM Funds Humanitarian Assistance Projects
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in the North and Far North regions. On September 14, members of the Defense Attaché Office of the U.S. Embassy in Cameroon traveled to Maroua and Garoua in the Far North and North regions of Cameroon
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Israel Rejects UN War Crimes Resolution
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Israel has responded angrily to a United Nations resolution that accuses the Jewish state of war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel says the United Nations General Assembly is 'completely
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Blind Human Rights Watchers?
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Follow Israel opinion on and . Kristallnacht took place on November 9, 1939 in the land of Beethoven. Organizations formed to prevent a recurrence of Nazi horrors should not make light of them, now that
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Kimberley Process: Zimbabwe Action Mars Credibility
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The group that monitors blood diamonds essentially ignored the blood being shed in Zimbabwe's diamond fields. That decision puts diamond consumers at risk of buying blood diamonds. Georgette Gagnon,
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Israeli prime minister says arms shipment a war crime
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's efforts to smuggle arms to Hezbollah on a cargo ship are a war crime. The Israeli Navy intercepted the ship, the Antiguan vessel Fracop, and seized
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UN in $200m appeal for Kenya refugees
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United Nations is appealing for Sh210 million (US$2.8 million) to provide essential supplies to refugees and respond to possible disease outbreaks in camps threatened by floods in Kenya. The extra funds
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UN guards eject Canadian critical of Israeli report
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Guards at the United Nations whisked away a UN-accredited Canadian commentator this week after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes. Ã? Ã? Ã? Guards
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Munyaneza gets life in jail for Rwandan war crimes
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Désiré Munyaneza, shown in a court sketch, stands to hear the Federal Court decision in May that he is guilty on seven charges. (Mike Mclaughlin/Canadian Press) A Rwandan man found guilty under Canadian
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Italy Convicts CIA Agents over Extraordinary Renditions
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An Italian judge has convicted 23 Central Intelligence Agency officers of participating in the kidnapping and rendition of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The trial marked the first time the controversial
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